Alex Smith's Best Performance Ever?

I'd say it was one of his best and most clutch performances ever. Think about it. He led a very clutch end of the game drive and scored on the 2 point conversion as well. We flat out handed them 16 points. 9 on the high snap for a safety and their next short drive and 7 more on the punt return fumble. Alex did not lose this game. He played well enough to win.

Smith puts up stats, but still loses the game for us and he is cheered. Meanwhile the guy who didn't put up the huge stats won.

This is the "new" Niner fanbase, brother. Where mediocrity is "acceptable" and moral victories can still be found in losing efforts. I dont know what happened to the old Niner faithful (maybe they just dont know how to use the internet), but I find it laughable that the team can be lauded in a losing effort.

Damn pathetic........

Gotta agree..

Alex's career has looked so inconsistent up to this point that any of sign of good QB play is praised. This decent performance doesn't erase the Seattle game and doesn't make up for the last 5 years.

He still has a LONG way to go, but I liked what I saw tonight.

He needs to do it CONSISTENTLY to get my respect. I'm not lowering my standards for anybody.

Originally posted by SnakePlissken:People are forgetting the biggest thing here: Alex Smith was Accurate and made Franchise-quality throws when it counted. Take away those bad luck deflections and his QB rating would have been the best in the West this week.

Smith was vintage 2007 49ers vs Cards Alex Smith. Darting accurate throws, running out of the pocket when nothing is going on for the first down... wow.

Smith puts up stats, but still loses the game for us and he is cheered. Meanwhile the guy who didn't put up the huge stats won.

This is the "new" Niner fanbase, brother. Where mediocrity is "acceptable" and moral victories can still be found in losing efforts. I dont know what happened to the old Niner faithful (maybe they just dont know how to use the internet), but I find it laughable that the team can be lauded in a losing effort.

Damn pathetic........

Gotta agree..

Alex's career has looked so inconsistent up to this point that any of sign of good QB play is praised. This decent performance doesn't erase the Seattle game and doesn't make up for the last 5 years.

He still has a LONG way to go, but I liked what I saw tonight.

He needs to do it CONSISTENTLY to get my respect. I'm not lowering my standards for anybody.

Smith puts up stats, but still loses the game for us and he is cheered. Meanwhile the guy who didn't put up the huge stats won.

You're a straight hater dude. How many threads are you gonna keep flapping your gums about how Smith lost the game. Pretty sure you could point the finger at some other players, but you're blinded by your hatred. Or you're just baiting people cause you got nothing better to do.

Bottom line, Smith kept this team IN the game. Obviously you were not watching. If you had seen the game, you would have seen a guy in complete control on the field. He was the field general, telling guys were they should be lined up, when to go in motion, and HE MADE PLAYS when the team needed them.

I'd love to celebrate, but there's no reason to think we'll stop hurting ourselves with turnovers.

Alex has had a couple of these kinds of games, he won one in seattle several years back after a great final drive. Anyone saying he 'lost the game for us" is just letting emotion get in the way of good sense. That being said, i'm tired of Alex doing just enough to keep his job every year--or eventually gain it back. I want to see some consistency here. If he has seven more games like this, and seven more like seattle, he's out.

Smith puts up stats, but still loses the game for us and he is cheered. Meanwhile the guy who didn't put up the huge stats won.

This is the "new" Niner fanbase, brother. Where mediocrity is "acceptable" and moral victories can still be found in losing efforts. I dont know what happened to the old Niner faithful (maybe they just dont know how to use the internet), but I find it laughable that the team can be lauded in a losing effort.

Damn pathetic........

Gotta agree..

Alex's career has looked so inconsistent up to this point that any of sign of good QB play is praised. This decent performance doesn't erase the Seattle game and doesn't make up for the last 5 years.

He still has a LONG way to go, but I liked what I saw tonight.

He needs to do it CONSISTENTLY to get my respect. I'm not lowering my standards for anybody.

He played well .. even tho he threw two picks.. we just had bad luck in this game.. and sometimes luck is the difference between a win and a lost. But we are better for it. We are getting lessons early in the season that will help us further down the road this season.

We could have folded and let them blow us out but we fought and fought and fought all the way down to the final fg that was almost block.

So we are improving... especially after getting blown out by the sea chickens.

Not on Alex alone anyway. The blame can be spread around between Alex and several other players with all the turnovers we had. But I like how Alex looked like he was ready to be a hero toward the end. Unfortunately Brees and Hartley wanted to be heroes too.

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